doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com anybody watch "Pawn Stars" last night?

The description of the show said someone brought in a "three-barreled shotgun", so of course, I had to watch. I suspected it was actually a drilling and not the very rare three barrel gun.

It was a drilling, which Rick kept calling a "drillings". It was a Sauer and Son 16g over 9.3x72. It had nicely restrained engraving and a folding sight. Also had a sidelever and a toplever, so I'm guessing the sidelever may have been to cock the rifle barrel.

The stock was cracked and one hammer was replaced. The barrels (Damascus) looked to be in good condition, but were not closely inspected.

Their "expert" put the value at $1500 to $3500 in "excellent" condition. Pretty big range, but I think that in excellent condition it would be closer to higher range. He put the value in the current condition at $500. The shop offered the seller, $350, which he refused. I would have loved to buy that gun for $500!

Anyway, it was interesting to see an old double on a mainstream show, but the misinformation was frustrating. They kept calling it "wall hanger" and said it would "blow up" if you shot it because it had Damascus barrels. grrrrr.

Nothing with wrong with that, if the general public wants to think Damascus barrels are bad, keeps the price down.

The "old man" also called the 9.3x72r an "elephant caliber". I have never shot an elephant, however, if I were to give it a go it would be with something with a bit more horsepower than a 9.3x72r.

The shotgun barrels looked pretty pitted from the quick view they gave.

tunes

With a replaced hammer, cracked stock, and pits, the $350 offer would have been a fair one. By the way, on a hammer Sauer driller, the side lever is to open and the top lever is select the rifle barrel. On some, (not mine), the top lever also raises the sight. My sight is manually raised.

tunes, I thought the same. Eightbore, thanks. I'm no expert in the drilling department, so appreciate your insight. I think many guys on this board are probably better informed than the guys on the show, but it is a bit of specialty piece.

Last dollar, I agree!

Die Inhaber dieses Pfandhauses spricht nicht oder versteth Deutschen. Eine Bohrung kommt vom Wurzelwort "Drei"-- bedeutung- "three" auf Englisch. Die zwei fetten Jungen in siemen Geschaft
rufen unseren geliebten marktjaeger, und seine zwei geachteten Bruder zuruck. Und Die alte Mann ist ein Schwarzmarkt-scheiber von den alten Tagen des Amerikanischen, den er sogar passend fur das Fach kleidet> Jawohl!!

Was, was ist das? Dummkopf.

I've not shot an elephant either but the 9.3 round is an old German caliber that was used extensively in German Africa and one did indeed kill elephants with it. The round has become popular again as 9.x74R and makes a great boar round - that was my intention when I got my DR in that caliber.

However, many African countries do no longer permit the 9.3 to be used on DG and make the lower limit the .375 which I believe to have been politically motivated since the differences are inconsequential.

Just in passing, I think the 9.3 x72 is truly obsolete and it's a real b!tch to find brass - the profile of the cartridge is different - it's not just 2mm shorter than the common 9.3x74R

Sorry I missed that episode - those old drillings are really great guns!

9.3x72r is made by Sellier & Bellott. Considerably weaker than 9.3x74r.

Countries in Africa that have a rule of "nothing less than .375" often have a specific and sole exception for 9.3x74r because it has more power than ballistically apparent and because it has been the favored round down there for more than 50 years. (e.g. Namibia, etc.)

This is all in the context of use on large, dangerous game, Elephant and Rhino excluded.

9.3x72R performance is closer to .35 Remington than to the .375H&H. Probably just fine for a boar gun or game through Hirsch at woods ranges.